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celestial radio
Catching up on the New York Times online, I found this article from 12/26 about the diversity of music available on satellite radio, compared to the narrowing c…
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Owner Override and Distributed Computing
I have written before about the advantages and disadvantages of including an owner override feature into trusted computing architectures. In the earlier posting…
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Ninth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Against Elvis Video Documentary
Passport Entertainment, which produced and sold “The Definitive Elvis,” a 16- hour video documentary about the life of Elvis Presley, appealed a preliminary inj…
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Online Posting of Image of Streisand Estate Upheld by Court
The Superior Court of California upheld the online posting of an image of the California coast line, including a view of the Streisand estate in Malibu, made fo…
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7th Circuit Rules that Extraction of Public Domain Data from Copyright-Protected Database Is Not Copyright Infringement
Southeastern Wisconsin municipalities collect various data regarding properties located on their territory (address, owner’s name, the age of the property, its…
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Ninth Circuit Denies En Banc Review of Ruling on Defamation Liability of Website Operator
In 1999, Cremers, who was an operator of website Museum Security Network, posted an allegedly defamatory e-mail from Smith, suggesting that Batzel’s art work is…
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Court Denies Preliminary Injunction, Says Pop-Up Ads for Competitors Likely Don’t Infringe Trademarks and Copyright
WhenU.com, Inc. (“WhenU”) makes software that observes what web sites a consumer visits and what terms he or she searches for on the Internet. Based on those o…
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Mapping traditional user rights to cyberspace II
I have written before about some interesting aspects of the Digital Media Project. Now they have announced a workshop about how traditional rights and usages of…
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Sauron's Offer to the Dwarves: Enforceable?
In a first-rate showing that law students can geek it out with the best of them, a student (1L?) at Michigan has written up a contract law analysis of Sauron…
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"On the cutting edge of cyberspace legal issues"
The San Jose Mercury News has profiled Jennifer Granick within a series of articles about Silicon Valley business leaders who fly under the radar. Read the stan…
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Auto communications systems permit secret eavesdropping
The New York Times is reporting that a recent opinion of the Ninth Circuit, though rejecting a wiretap request on unrelated grounds, leaves the door wide open t…
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DC Circuit Holds Against RIAA Subpoenas
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a strongly worded opinion holding that the DMCA § 512(h) subpoenas used by the RIAA against Verizon and other ISPs ar…